“Just swing by and get me. I never liked that nigga anyway,” Mylo said, and he didn’t. “I’ll get somebody to run the game,” he offered.

“Don’t you worry about that. I got that. You just be ready when I get here,” Freeze said and stood up.

“What time?”

Freeze looked at Mylo like he was crazy for asking. “Just be ready when I get here, nigga, and stop askin’ so many fuckin’ questions,” Freeze said and started to walk out of the office when he felt his cell phone vibrating in his pocket.

While Mylo left the office, Freeze glanced at the display and saw it was his so-called woman, Tanya. She was lonely and hadn’t seen Freeze in three days.

“What’s up, baby?” Freeze answered.

“Just wondering when I’m gonna see you again,” Tanya answered, getting right to her point. “I haven’t seen you in days,” she told him.

“I know that. I been busy.”

“I understand that you have things to do, but you gotta sleep someplace, sometime, and it damn sure hasn’t been here.”

Freeze decided not to comment, and was glad that she didn’t demand to know where he had been sleeping for the past few nights and with who. If she had, he would have told her and she wouldn’t have wanted to hear that truth.

Before he told Tanya, Look, I’ll see you when I see you and stop askin’ me all them fuckin’ questions, he thought about Paulleen, the last woman he had neglected. “I’ll be there in a couple of hours.”

“I’ll see you when you get here,” Tanya said softly and ended the call. Tanya, like Paulleen before her, had grown tired of being left alone all the time. Assuming that Freeze was lying again, she briefly contemplated calling her new playmate, but then quickly discouraged herself after realizing that her playmate was working tonight. So Tanya just decided to wait and see if Freeze would actually show up.